I'm honestly amazed I didn't know that, perhaps Apple should have shipped the NotchBook Pro™ with the menubar below the notch, and everything above black, and had a setting you could change to turn it to how it is now.

There's some apps in the App Store which allow you to, on top of the accessibility setting I mentioned earlier. It isn't ideal.

Let me put it this way: if too many people dislike the notch, I'm cool they go without it. Or have two versions. The issue simply doesn't bother me, I'm indifferent about it. MBPs have had much worse issues between 2016 and 2020.

Yeah, the notch is not a real issue for me, though I did end up getting Bartender to work around it when on laptop only.

The phone notch is much less annoying now that they did whatever they did in the latest iOS to make it hardly noticeable.